UPDATE: FBI: Gunman only 1 responsible in temple shooting

Peggy Renner-Howell lays flowers at a makeshift memorial near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in Oak Creek, Wis., where a gunman killed six people this past Sunday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

MILWAUKEE (AP) -

There's no trial to prepare, no jury to persuade, no judge to hand down a sentence.

Wade Michael Page is dead,
having shot himself in the head after being wounded by police responding
to the fatal shooting of six people at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee.
Although detectives have interviewed more than 100 people, combed
through Page's email and recovered evidence from the scene - 139 items
were taken from the temple's parking lot alone - their findings might
never be presented in court.

"We have not identified
anyone else responsible for the shooting and we have not identified a
motive," Teresa Carlson, FBI special agent in charge in Milwaukee, told a
Wednesday news conference.

So will the full story
behind the attack ever be known? And how long will investigators keep
looking for an elusive motive that might provide answers to devastated
Sikh families, as well as valuable information about white supremacists?

At the moment, detectives
are sifting through the gunman's life, assembling the biography of a man
who apparently had few relatives, a spotty work history and a thin
criminal record. They have warned they might never learn for certain
what drove him to attack total strangers in a holy place. Carlson said
Wednesday that investigators have not found any kind of note left by
Page.

The Sikh community holds out hope.

"We just want to get to the
bottom of what motivated him to do it," said Amardeep Singh, an
executive with the New York-based Sikh Coalition. "It's important to
acknowledge why they lost their lives."

The 40-year-old Army
veteran strode into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shortly before Sunday
services and opened fire with a 9 mm pistol. The dead included temple
President Satwant Singh Kaleka, who was shot as he tried to fend off the
shooter with a butter knife.

Page shot a responding police officer in the parking lot at least eight times before another officer wounded Page in a shootout.

Police had earlier said the
second officer killed Page, but Carlson said Wednesday that it's been
determined Page shot himself in the head after being hit and died of the
self-inflicted wound.

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Todd Richmond can be reached at trichmond(at)ap.org. Dinesh Ramde can be reached at dramde(at)ap.org.

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